Abrahams, Maurice

Maurice Abrahams Composer, music publisher Russia, March 18, 1883; New York City, April 13, 1931. Abrahams was a pop song composer of the 1910s and 1920s who is best remembered for the 1912 novelty hit “Ragtime Cowboy Joe,” written with Lewis Muir and lyricist Grant Clarke (1891–1931). Abrahams was composing pop songs by the early 1910s. After his hit with “Ragtime Cowboy Joe,” Abrahams collaborated again with Clarke (along with Edgar Leslie as colyricist) on the 1913 hit “He’d Have to Get Out…